From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Garrett Subject: Re: New linux box Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:24:06 +1100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1075127046.18019.18.camel@DebiAnarchist> References: <200401262213.43388.wheds8@ms66.hinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200401262213.43388.wheds8@ms66.hinet.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie list You might want to look at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ seems a bit outdated (2002-11-12) but it looks informative. For Mandrake try http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 01:13, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > Well, my problems have much to do with hardware and it is time to get a new > box. My old box ran for 6 years with Mandrake and never crashed. (X-windows > crashed when setting up Matrox 450 though.) My question is what hardware is > good to avoid. I only use my computer for work, no games, but I am on it at > least 6 hours or more a day. I care mostly about stability and don't really > care too much about speed. So more to the point are any of you aware of > hardware that is a nightmare to install. Or a site which can help. > > Cordially, > S. Barret Dolph > Taipei Taiwan > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs